Leafs' thread is only at 15, and they have so much more experience with having high picks than us!

Habs 4 Life

06-19-2012 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by overlords
(Post 51114325)

Leafs' thread is only at 15, and they have so much more experience with having high picks than us!

Because they already know Burke will be trading for the 1st overall and there getting Nail :sarcasm:

Freaky Habs Fan

06-19-2012 09:45 PM

Who'd be disappointed with Forsberg if Yakupov and Murray goes first and second? TSN's list is very accurate for the top 3 with a 5 right prediction in the last 8 years.

Et le But

06-19-2012 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Freaky Habs Fan
(Post 51114601)

Who'd be disappointed with Forsberg if Yakupov and Murray goes first and second? TSN's list is very accurate for the top 3 with a 5 right prediction in the last 8 years.

I certainly won't.

NotProkofievian

06-19-2012 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by overlords
(Post 51114111)

Could this be... THE thread?

There will be at least an entire thread on the Friday leading up to it.

Habs fans be crazy...

StanleyCH25

06-19-2012 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by tlureb

This cynical Grigorenko take-down is nothing but a pre-draft cabal run to wrest a generational talent away from Montreal's grasp. A new GM, especially in Montreal, might think twice before staking his tenure on whom is played up...crescendo-like in 'Toranna'-centric media... to be a disaster in waiting.

"The story has legs, ...so has Grigorenko, and lo-and-behold Galchenyuk might not... Let's make it real easy and gratifying for a GM's dubious mettle to partake in our 'echo-chamber' plot... We're on the cusp of swapping picks...and flattery...with the devil, at no cost; who would have thought just a few months ago that we could have even hoped to pull that one off!"
...might be saying the shadow director of the Toranna Chamber Orchestra, Brian Burke.

You trade up and draft Grigorenko first overall, ... or you trade down and draft Grigorenko in the teens. In each instances you get exactly what you pay, or do not pay for. Either a player who plays with confidence and his employer's draft-day-tested trust to his generational talent, ...or a player who delivers exactly what's expected of him by drafting community's consensus: a volatile repository of partly fulfilled creativity.

You pick him first...or almost, you get him whole...or almost. You pick him on a drift, ...dime-a-dozen sorta, might as well draft a ghost...

The only part that confuses me about your post is the last thought you leave us with. Just because you trade up to draft a player first overall, does not guarantee you get the whole. Same with the opposite.. if you draft him in the 'dime-a-dozen' group, doesn't meant you get a ghost of the player's ability.

You could just as well inflate a person's ego by drafting him 1st overall or put him under so much pressure that they crack at not fulfilling the organization's expectations. Just as the 'dime-a-dozen' trade down scenario might involve the organization going up to the player and saying 'Wow! We never thought you were going to be available at this spot when we traded our pick. We're ecstatic to even have the chance to develop you in our system.'

Habs 4 Life

06-19-2012 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by NotProkofievian
(Post 51114707)

There will be at least an entire thread on the Friday leading up to it.

Habs fans be crazy...

There will most probably be a thread for every Habs pick like past years

Captain Saku

06-19-2012 09:56 PM

What time is the draft on friday and saturday?

NotProkofievian

06-19-2012 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Habs 4 Life
(Post 51114797)

There will most probably be a thread for every Habs pick like past years

I remember reading them last year. It was good to have some info shaken out of the webs for the new arrivals.

...being that most of us had never heard of any of them beyond Beaulieu before :laugh:

vokiel

06-19-2012 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Saku
(Post 51115077)

What time is the draft on friday and saturday?

Friday is 7pm ET. That's for round 1 only I think.

Don't know about Saturday.

Vi Nc E x13x

06-19-2012 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Saku
(Post 51115077)

What time is the draft on friday and saturday?

I think friday it starts at 7pm not sure about saturday

didjuicythat

06-19-2012 10:03 PM

Round 2 is set to start at 10 AM ET on Saturday. You're welcome.

Habs 4 Life

06-19-2012 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Freaky Habs Fan
(Post 51114601)

Who'd be disappointed with Forsberg if Yakupov and Murray goes first and second? TSN's list is very accurate for the top 3 with a 5 right prediction in the last 8 years.

I won't, I still can't decide between Forsberg and Galchenyuk assuming they're both available for the Habs pick

pine*

06-19-2012 10:04 PM

poll pls ov3rl0rdz

I vote Galchenyuk.

vokiel

06-19-2012 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by didjuicythat
(Post 51115417)

Round 2 is set to start at 10 AM ET on Saturday. You're welcome.

So.. we're getting Bozon at around 10:15 am right?

Kinda early for drinking ah..

pine*

06-19-2012 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by vokiel
(Post 51115495)

So.. we're getting Bozon at around 10:15 am right?

Kinda early for drinking ah..

Jankowski or Frk or Aberg pls

Jeffrey

06-19-2012 10:07 PM

I would be mad if we select Bozon with our 33rd pick, there should be player that are way better.
If we select him with our 51st pick I wouldn't mind it tough!